until this very day human trafficking has shaped the way. this is the journey back into the history of slavery i think we will truly be making progress when we all accept the history of slavery as all of our history. our documentary series slavery routes starts march 9th on t.w. . dumb. hello everybody and a welcome to the latest edition of eco africa i am sundra coming to you from kampala here in uganda it is nice to have you with us and of course today we'll have a lot of new reports of all the different things people are doing to talk about environmental

issues and with me of course is michael presenter nia to pay sandra it's good to see you again my name is now outside and thanks for tuning in today's program will take us on a whirlwind tour of our views of all continents africa and europe the shed some light on the environmental threats we face with ugandan eco arts of his going next on the cards in the wake of a troubling visit to the world economic forum. we go to germany's got sober living where researchers have developed no plan to marry someone we. know we go to kenya well fast growing type of grass could help us on the pride. when my feeling is daunting but it's a negative one to the want to be putting more and different things in my she was looking forward to hearing a lot of other young limit up to be used and just ended up on the consummate i'm

going to be about race on the we present ation going up a 100 fold i know but this is somebody on the lead on the young white focus on a press conference in st johns just think it's called tone of a news agency will still be you may also state of grace apologize in the mean value but up because the climate activists feel the need to even come on to the way their voices are being erased from the climate debate now because it is not well known in uganda and it was because when by to visit her. oh. it was a moment of joy with sadness. when she discovered that i was the only for. she had been cropped out of a published group photo with other climate change activists the incident went viral in an online priest conference that cutting back addresses him in the media. other

activists joined in solidarity including learning from south africa and gratitude back from sweden you're focusing on travel activism from different corners of you know the western countries but what you're doing wrong is try as much as possible to says out and raise the voices from the global south it makes us feel like they activism and disasters in africa wouldn't be of selling care for you. funny some cutting lives in uganda she got involved in climate activism in december 2018 after her country was hit by unusually high temperatures the incident during her visit to the world economic forum in switzerland has not be flatted her mission or commitment. what's happened turned out to be a positive thing because of how we responded to aids as optimus from africa and it

has our work and most choose to stand up and rise up and demand for action as well as our work in media and the public about the dangers of climate change. she's also taken hierarch to visit into the classroom after this schooling central uganda us she wants to inspire the next generation to get passionate about the environment . and who is currently believe here to protect the truth is. i believe that every kid deserves an opportunity to be in such a trust to clearly understand the importance of the things that they see in their environment these kids understand they clearly knew they informed us of this tree but if you come into that trust and teach them and remind them that gives them a lot and a way out of the destruction that causes that goes in their environment and pushes

them to conserve. and now she's ready to take her activism to the next level she's preparing a proposal for the ugandan parliament how the goal is to get climate change. introduced you know ugandan schools i wish i had known about climate change at an idea age i believe that my impact would have been bigger than it is right now that's why i believe that it is important and for the president and the ministry of education to to include climate change as part of the curriculum in different schools the determined octavius also wants to see schools using community energy and support from how $4000000.00 in europe she's now supplying clean cooking stove to help schools reduce their consumption of food. this talks will not only save trees or money but also give the children 1st hand experience of using clean

imagine. part of liming to protect the environment. only a fraction of south africa's west is recycled about 90 percent don't look sick from the prawns live interview he took from tests on can be a source of disease and death is where our next report picks up. and it's. 2 young south africans thought he was high time to tackle this problem one of them is a musician the other over cycling experts and unlikely duo you might think well the 2 men have got together to create their own waste removal system i see this going. on with. it was it's 5 o'clock in the morning. as the sun rises the stench of rotting garbage becomes unbearable. these

2 men are determined to do something about all the litter in their community. one solution is resettling because most of the things that you find here are a 2nd level it's small saw 60 percent of feed can be repaired it 2 to recycling bongani piri worked as a musician and more to yani worked in waste management seeing the garbage piling up they both quit their jobs and started the initiative valid green like many villages in south africa can't afford waste collection so that's letter everywhere to the valley green team to go from house to house to collect plastic glass bottles and paper then they sort it all. most people in macau used to burn that waste so it wasn't easy to convince them to change their ways and keep things that can be recycled. if it's only

really all the way to seriously was going to be a deal include recycling and it sells so when you take a little board recycling for them it's the and us they need easier and filling a youth of i am not go a bunch to say. but you also started what they call the eco here and program to engage with young people about environmental issues once a week they go to the local primary school to make music and dance with the students. participation is voluntary but it's fun to join them and that motivates the kids to become eco heroes. here today i've shown you in love with music and but now. with the environment did we do all these things that i hope a new global warming crowd before us the ratio in pollution of rivers and pollution

of our oceans so you know what why not use my music and the little skills that they have and of course. with some guys who have studied the environment and so what are we combine the 2 most need to create something that is unique and beautiful here also trains the local soccer team another opportunity to motivate young people to take part in clean up campaigns and teach their parents how to separate the trash. valid green also helps people in the village set up compost heaps to make use of organic waste residents are grateful for all these activities and that makes them more inclined to take an active part in recycling what evil have learned been done it's a great initiative it helps the children after school in these crucial 3 or 4 hours when they would otherwise just sit around. with all these projects in the community

they can go to panick green and bongani entire bangle teach them how to take care of the environment all they can do other things that will keep them busy are the school. board in the valley green team take what they collect to a recycling station a major challenge for their business venture is transportation to recycling station pays about 80 euros for a load half the sum goes to pay the owner of the truck so period just $300.00 euros a month in total. he says the solution is to grow the business and gauge a larger group of waste collectors who will sell them the things they find. put it in as a pipe it's until they come to us this old exec or worse then. these become pundits who play in dreams who plan to save the us so do more volume we have

no more when i see one trust post and leave it. for now p.d. and multi yanina saving up to buy a professional weighing scale and eventually a truck of their own. then they plan to employ dozens more waste collectors. to make and keep a clean place to live. now and so this week's doing your bit it's hard to imagine an infrastructure project anywhere in the world doesn't use concrete well producing cement for the concrete produces a lot of c o 2 emissions well a group of german scientists and the african partners in nigeria want to make a difference they want to make concrete production more sustainable they've made on all spending discovery take a look at this. africa's

building sector is booming the continent uses as much concrete for construction as europe does but making the cement that binds it produces a lot of carbon dioxide up to 10 percent of the world's c o 2 emissions. scientists from germany and nigeria are studying alternatives there are experimenting with remains of local plants such as kosov appeals that have been incinerated at certain temperatures. from the ash that we collect we develop cement like products they could be used in place of cement binder sold at local markets that would reduce the c o 2 footprint. ash from rice hulls and other plant remnants are also showing promising results using plant based cement is an environmentally friendly alternative. not only can an endless supply of organic

waste be put to good use this is stable eco concrete is also much cheaper to produce. it may even be more stable and durable than conventional concrete. the scientists hope to see the 1st building made from facade of a concrete constructed as early as next year on the university of lagos' campus. and how about you if you're also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send us a tweet. hash tag doing your bit. we share your story. feeling nigeria is a big issue with. 200000000 people cities like leaders in our buddha keep growing but can the environment really handle all this massive growth it may seem like an

impossible task but are nomination close to showing the right way by taking small steps they are teaching the farmers how to go organic food and how to take care of nature one patch at a time we have to think about all these old. organisms all this things that live in the still use in this that to sustain themselves. training in organic farming has become a do or when i as main job he likes to teach out in the field. like give you those chemical to do this from and you see whether it comes it was she says it in delta the river goes down to pollute the river. instead he courage is the use of organic fertilizer. and they should. then very mentalist shows the farmers how to mix and applied correctly his organic

fertilizers made from the name trees and other plant extracts. now we've talked about climate change. that has been a. been a triscuit so we wanted to start up on our own aspect of agricultural tool caution that. in 2012 he founded the non-governmental organization farm awareness which advocates farming methods the don't harm the environment. the farmers also benefit from the training because using chemical fertilizers degrades the soil over time. unlike those in the conventional method of chemical fertilizers alchemy we call. the natural methods of farming using the environment but using things around us to form inputs to form fertiliser where there aren't they go to meet the farmers and different communities

right here in with. the ngo supports farmers on creating cooperative and they provide training courses so since 2012 they're trained around 9000 farmers. i'll be honest our with thoughts but it's good for most of us we hope that we're done as if it's of the family that's really been so welcoming so great that when i saw us so long there and this is actually this was before we improve on our family system we have to farm awareness also sells the organic fertilizer which is more affordable for the small scale farmers they need less of the liquid than chemical fertilizer and can buy it from the organization and subsidize the rate of about 7 year olds for later. legs under our hands started organic farming 2 years ago after training with farm awareness the season he's mainly planting the salmon easing organic fertiliser. he did make lopes the club

into but he's already welsh. so they made a 3 hour flight give me the results. the engineer would like to sell its fertilizer internationally but it wouldn't sound as an organic product because nigeria has no organic certification system so the group is still facing challenges to friends itself. we all know that mustn't wants is a plastic waste and up it all seems luckily more and more people are coming forward with their own unique solutions to addressing the problem. you're very right near to these young passionate sailors from germany and the netherlands felt worried about the plastic invasion and came up with a very innovative idea of intercepting the trash before it is washed away a seat and now this idea is being used in what's always take

a look. all kinds of debris swimming in this canal in amsterdam ends up in this catchment cage. a crew from the water company rotter net comes by regularly to empty it every week about a 1000 kilograms of stuff accumulates half of it plastic. this is how it works and there is pumped into a tube lay diagonally across the bed of the canal and escapes through holes in the tube the bubbles bring the waste to the surface the waste is then directed with the help of the current into the receptacle near the bank keeping it out of the north sea. boats and fish can pass through the bottle barrier be extra oxygen is also good for the water. the great bubble barrier was devised by an amsterdam startup of the same name yeah right on at this point the great little barrier is responsible for the maintenance of the whole installation but that and it is going to start

doing research so they will start research on how much less tickets are being collected and also do research on. how easy it is to be emptied the water company has crews and a fleet of boats that go around and pull trash out of the city's waterways last year that included more than 40000 kilograms of plastic the hope is that bubble barriers will make the job easier and more effective. that's what this test installation in operation since november should determine. the inventors spent years developing the bubble barrier. there were various challenges such as how to position the tube and resulting screen of bubbles so as to direct trash to a collecting point and how to make best use of currents. the diagonal path is key. for people set up the company they now have a staff of 10. there's been

a lot of resonance the technology is not particularly complex or expensive and it should prove to be very scalable philip hall is one of the inventors of the system and he's continuing to develop it he's currently working on improving the catchment part of the process micro plastics are a serious problem worldwide and jeopardize the food chain none the less off for it is in the european union for example and yet obliged to clean their waterways of plastic despite the health risks. 6 because that's a more direct threat to our health that's something when we start to wake up if it's already hurting the environment is usually not urgent enough. but there is still the budget around to to get plastic out of the water so that's certainly

a challenge for us as as. plastic trash is a global plague that bubble barriers could help combat the team see a lot of potential for expansion. move towards europe within this years of 2020 but also move towards asia once you have a solidified partnership with parties in asia they hope to set up the 1st the bubble barrier in asia by 2023. what are smart solution for plastic pollution here is another great idea this one from kenya right next door often times people graze cattle in local woodlands which can have a negative impact the crowd rational more nutrient rich napi a grass could help ease the pressure of the forests as well as boosting dairy yields and cutting greenhouse gas emissions a win win situation. green testi healthy and pest resistant mapua grass. the hills around kenya's mouth forest offer

ideal conditions for these highly nutritious plants which can grow several beaters tall. but the local farmers prefer to graze their cows on wild grassland. kenya has 2000000 small scale dairy farmers with herds of 10 cows or less. all together that's a huge number of animals emitting a considerable amount of methane gas well they just in their food. and farmers are still cutting down forests to gain grazing land for their cattle the biggest problems we're having now about climate change is land use change and land use changes where you are converting forests that are actually talks of carbon and this couple when it is released into the atmosphere actually needs to claim a change so when you cut down forests that are tainted into cropland order

for grassland for livestock then you are releasing a lot of carbon into the atmosphere which leads to climate change. together with 2 european universities the center for international forestry research has conducted a study in kenya to find an alternative that could benefit both the farmers and then vironment they compared to. wild grasses forest grazing and silent for da lead from locally grown maize and there is such as investigated how the cows diet affects the amount of meth and they emit while keeping a close check to on the animal's health and productivity. glass is one that if you can use very good quality. then it is a very good supplement that will do. just a bull to the animals. being produced more milk being produced the next task for

the researchers was to convince a small scale farmers to change their habits by spilling out all the advantages of the nappy grass they succeeded even though many farmers still want to lead their cattle graze enough to feel they are at least prepared to give them the and for. that they were both in the school in the old days we used to graze our life still going the forest. now we feed them on the cuts not the grass and the productivities has improved. but no. i can support my family as well as my neighbors. with. the cows now provide about 50 percent more milk than before and the heart is also healthier overall.

it's good in. this then these are decided they deserve all some of the best. most you get them from the us is very afraid the. us. has shop aged leaves and secrets a slimy substance to try when they learn from them and be healthier cows mean higher revenues and winning equation for the farmers and one with benefits for the environment too had speeding or not produced to want to have percent less greenhouse gases. another reminder that looking after the environment always pays off sadly for you that's all we had for you today but thank you for joining us so long for me sunday from kampala goodbye until next time by nearer to. why for now sandra was the

pleasure of co-hosting the show with you i know it's a way signing off from lagos nigeria see you again next week.

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